A peeve
Much like you shouldn’t call an ATM an ATM Machine (because that makes it an Automatic Teller Machine Machine), you shouldn’t call it a BUG Gun either. Unless it maybe is the backup gun to your backup gun.
And don’t get me started on VIN Number or PIN Number.
May 6th, 2011 at 11:34 am
But wouldn’t that be Backup BUG?
May 6th, 2011 at 11:35 am
i said ‘maybe’.
May 6th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Pet Peeve: “Do you want that with Au Jus?”
May 6th, 2011 at 11:46 am
I look at backup guns differently. I carry a 1911 colt as a primary and a pre 1985 taurus .357 magnum with a 6 inch barrel as backup… If the 1911 cannot handle the situation the taurus sure can. I do not believe in carrying less power as a backup. Of course I weigh 260 so carrying is not a problem…
May 6th, 2011 at 11:46 am
maybe it just reinforces the point?
May 6th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
What about FedEx Express?
May 6th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
ATM and BUG require disambiguation.
May 6th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Hot water heater. If it’s hot, why does it need heating?
May 6th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
I knew Mike would comment with that.
May 6th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
“Arms maker for responsible citizens”
May 6th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I heard a band once called “The Los Hermanos Brothers”. They advertised themselves as available for all your weddings, bar-mitzvahs or acquittals. JD
May 6th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
You know, I’ve been calling them “BUG Guns” for so long that I never even thought of that. Now that’s going to bug the shit out of me.
May 6th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
From the Department of Redundancy Department not to be confused with the Branch Of Awkward Wording Branch
Also see 200 Common Redundancies
May 6th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
So if one had a BUG Gun for one’s BUG Out Bag (since Bugging- in- Place is not Bugging at all), then one would be using a BUG in a BUG Bag? But wouldn’t that make a BUG Bag a Holster? So how many days worth of Emergency Gear could one put in a BUG Holster?
My brain hurts.
May 6th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
My dad defined ATM Machine as Any Time Money Machine because he didn’t like the redundancy either. For that, I posthumously award him a coveted Marvel no-prize.
May 6th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Just remembered: There is an English word that can be used multiple times in the same sentence w/o being redundant. I’ll clean it up in case there are any children in the room.
“Frack it! The Fracking Frackers is Fracking well Fracked!”
I’ll leave it to the English Majors to do the sentence conjugation.
May 6th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
“Let me unloosen this bolt.”
“You mean you’re going to tighten it?”
“No, I’m going to unloosen it.”
“???????”
May 6th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Unloose is proper English going back to the 14th century, and is used 3 times in the King James Version.
May 7th, 2011 at 12:07 am
“…used three times in the King James version…”
Well, Hell then…
May 7th, 2011 at 11:08 pm
Well, hasn’t this raised “a whole nuther” bunch of things to laugh about.
May 8th, 2011 at 9:15 am
My pet peeve is “HIV virus”, which is “Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus”. A virus for a virus? Sounds like something that would actually cure the disease.
May 8th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
When you’re not carrying it, is your backup gun snug as a BUG in a rug?
May 9th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Dang! Beaten to the “hot water heater.” To drown my sorrow, I’ll run out and buy a cabriolet convertable.